[Q] Screen turns on by itself... - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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Hey guys, I've been searching the forum for a solution to this ploblem but came back empty handed. I rooted my sgIII i9300 last night and since then the screen keeps turning on randomly. Sometimes I even have to turn it off manually. I've uninstalled all recent installed apps. Killed all apps running in background. Toyed with the screen timeout, brightness and other screen features related but nothing does it.
Baseband version
I9300XXLEF
Kernel Version
3.0.15-57065
Rooted with CWM Manager v3.6
I'm thinking about rooting again but is it wise?

Try reinstalling the stock firmware or try unrooting
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Yeah I thought about that, but I don't feel like going through the hassle of a full fledged flashing process. I guess I'm gonna unroot and root again. If anyone has this issue, ... .

Uniinstall all of your apps.

Xelium said:
Yeah I thought about that, but I don't feel like going through the hassle of a full fledged flashing process. I guess I'm gonna unroot and root again. If anyone has this issue, ... .
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that's rather pointless in my mind... just perform a factory reset...
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Problem solved. It was an app messing with the hardware. A cheap torch app.

you mean "0 money" or "few money"? ;-)
got same problem on my tab10.1/overcome231. i guess whether "high intensity flashlight" is guilty.
however, i hoped to know out whether there are some log application that records actions such as "which app sounded" or "which application turned the screen on".
any ideas?

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[Q] Accelerometer stopped working! Please help!

Hi guys I'm on bionix 3 with JACs OC kernel with the latest voodoo and color fix installed. Since I installed the newest kernel my rotation has stopped working in all my apps. I downloaded an app to test my orientation sensor, everything is set to 0. I also dropped my phone after I installed the kernel so maybe that could be the reason...any ideas? Is there a way to test if items software or hardware related? If it is damaged hardware, should I unhappy and go to t mobile? any advice is greatly appreciated thanks!
Revert your phone to complete stock and see if it begins to work again. If it doesn't, then your best bet is to bring it back to Tmo.
I don't always complain, but when I do, I #BlameWes
vinnydakid said:
Revert your phone to complete stock and see if it begins to work again. If it doesn't, then your best bet is to bring it back to Tmo.
I don't always complain, but when I do, I #BlameWes
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thanks ill try to remove the lagfix and ODIN back to stock.
if i were to take it to Tmo and the stock rom didnt fix it, would they replace it under warranty, you think?
I'm almost positive they will replace it. Just don't tell them you dropped it!
I don't always complain, but when I do, I #BlameWes
Happened to me, requested a new phone because it would not orient even after wiping.
So I get the new vibrant and go to town and wipe again, removing superuser su busybox, when in one app I realize it orients....
It had been on lagfix and orientation worked. I moved it to ext2 on sdcard, orientation worked.
So I blame an app or something else I have not redone on this replacement.
Btw check your compass, stuck at north too isn't it?
Edit: Wasn't me knocking it off the couch if a wipe fixes it.....
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morfic said:
Happened to me, requested a new phone because it would not orient even after wiping.
So I get the new vibrant and go to town and wipe again, removing superuser su busybox, when in one app I realize it orients....
It had been on lagfix and orientation worked. I moved it to ext2 on sdcard, orientation worked.
So I blame an app or something else I have not redone on this replacement.
Btw check your compass, stuck at north too isn't it?
Edit: Wasn't me knocking it off the couch if a wipe fixes it.....
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some apps automatically put the phone in landscape, like the youtube app once you watch a video, but if you press back and get to the main youtube app page it will stay in landscape but it wont rotate to portrait at all until you get to the home screen which i have locked onto portrait....ill wipe and odin to stock and see what happens, but what did you t-mobile when you gave it to them? and how do exchanges work exactly? ive never done one before with a phone, do they switch you out right then and there or do they mail you a replacement?
Thanks guys for your suggestions =]
speedysilwady said:
some apps automatically put the phone in landscape, like the youtube app once you watch a video, but if you press back and get to the main youtube app page it will stay in landscape but it wont rotate to portrait at all until you get to the home screen which i have locked onto portrait....ill wipe and odin to stock and see what happens, but what did you t-mobile when you gave it to them? and how do exchanges work exactly? ive never done one before with a phone, do they switch you out right then and there or do they mail you a replacement?
Thanks guys for your suggestions =]
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If you turn off auto orientation and exit your media apps, phone is in portrait, makes it more usable until you wipe phone.
I am not sure the stores do it past the 2 weeks, you call tmo and they might ask you to try things until they send you a new phone via ups, you put old one in a box and put the return label on and drop it off at a ups store to send it back, if you take more than 7 days, you get to pay for the replacement
pretty painless process unless you are impatient and say sure, charge me $21 for express shipping.
hm ODIN'd back to stock, works like a charm, thanks guys! must have had a bad flash or something...
speedysilwady said:
hm ODIN'd back to stock, works like a charm, thanks guys! must have had a bad flash or something...
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doubtful, it's something else, i have not flashed anything since the update.zip to root it, and it failed to orient long time after that, wish i knew what did it
morfic said:
doubtful, it's something else, i have not flashed anything since the update.zip to root it, and it failed to orient long time after that, wish i knew what did it
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Hmm that is strange, but there were a lot of weird things happening when I had the rom and kernel combo I had before. I had long wake up lag, intense battery drain, and no rotation, but I odin'd, rooted, flashed the same things again and everything works fine now, I even titanium restored some apps and settings ran fix permissions and nothing weird happening yet. Idk what could have caused it before...
My accelerometers are very flaky -- I have been assuming it's related to my nearly-useless compass and my completely non-functional GPS. I use "Digital Speed" whenever I drive my '55 (which has a broken speedo cable at the moment) and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Completely random, even after a fresh reboot.
Same problem here. Running Bionix 1.4. First noticed a problem when I installed a game that needed tilt to operate, it wouldn't work. Then I checked and the homescreen won't flip. Test apps show "no data" or "INIT" and no actual values for the sensors. I'm using the OC Voodoo version, is this a common thread with the problem?
Don't restore system setting from backup. It can kill the orientation. This is my experience.
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etichola said:
Don't restore system setting from backup. It can kill the orientation. This is my experience.
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Didn't.
I upgraded to Bionix 1.5 without Voodoo and the problem is gone. I thought maybe the 1.5 update fixed it, but another user is reporting the problem while on 1.5. I believe the Voodoo kernel is to blame at this point.
lotherius:
speedysilwady said:
Hmm that is strange, but there were a lot of weird things happening when I had the rom and kernel combo I had before. I had long wake up lag, intense battery drain, and no rotation, but I odin'd, rooted, flashed the same things again and everything works fine now, I even titanium restored some apps and settings ran fix permissions and nothing weird happening yet. Idk what could have caused it before...
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A full wipe worked for me, then again i never used anything too crazy. His experience suggests you should try it, oddly enough for me running the calibration tool, the error message talked about a stale nfs file
Reminds me of deleting battery statistics to reset the battery meter on other phones......and the full wiping/odin flashing nukes it.
Everything works fine on the replacement too with the same apps and fixes (minus lag fix) as before (orientation working wasn't found to be working before i already got a replacement on order :/ ), only thing i hate is gmaps 4.5.1 causing a load of 8.x+, enough to once get everything killed (uptime did not change although everything was reloaded, media was scanned as if it had rebooted) and a shut down the other time.

Samsung Galaxy S2 turns on screen randomly

Hi everybody, I searched for a thread concerning the problem described in the title, so I apologize if I failed at it.
My I9100's screen keeps turning itself on, at (apparently) random moments. It's a pretty annoying problem for different reasons, one of the most important being bound to power consuption, since the display light is maybe the most power-demanding feature. Besides, if you are trying to sleep, or watching a movie, etc. and you forget to leave it upside-down, you'll have hard times trying to ignore it
What I did to to solve the problem so far, is the following:
- Reset to factory defaults
- Install anti AD software (so I had to root the device)
- Disable auto update applications/notifications
- Look for a solution in forums
My bad that I didn't update firmare and OS yet, but I'd be glad if I had a positive feedback by someone who solved this issue this way, before I actually do that. A description of my phone follows:
Model: Samsung GT-I9100-XXKG1
Android ver.: 2.3.4
Kernel ver.: 2.6.35.7-I9100XXKG1-CL349526 se [email protected] #2
Remarkable sw installed: GO Launcher with some themes, GO Power master
I'd appreciate any input to solve the problem or suggestions on how to find the process/service responsible of this issue. Thanks a lot and nice day everyone!
Simone.
I always have had this issue !
Watch out from apps that keep getting permissions since they need root access:
Example uninstall THEN REBOOT these apps just for trial and see if it still occurs:
Luckypatcher, titanium backup, adaway or adfree, betterbatterystats, or any other similar app if you have!
Sent from another Galaxy S2!
yeah i had same issue too turns out it was some livewallpaper with ads which was waking the screen every now and then
Life Engineer said:
I always have had this issue !
Watch out from apps that keep getting permissions since they need root access:
Example uninstall THEN REBOOT these apps just for trial and see if it still occurs:
Luckypatcher, titanium backup, adaway or adfree, betterbatterystats, or any other similar app if you have!
Sent from another Galaxy S2!
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Hi Life Engineer, and thanks for your reply. I reset the phone to defaults not more than 2 days ago, so the problem occurred again with a real small number of apps, namely the default ones, plus, I guess, the guilty one, which I failed to identify. I installed adaway and Titanium bck just yesterday, so they're probably not the first cause, but I keep on looking for it as you suggested. The first things I usualy install are Go Launcher Ex and a battery management app. I'll let you know if I finally spot it! Bye!
P.S.: I didn't get if you finally managed to solve it! Bye!
heavens dragon said:
yeah i had same issue too turns out it was some livewallpaper with ads which was waking the screen every now and then
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Thanks for your reply heavens dragon, I think I'll switch back to the default launcher and see if something changes. Bye bye
a solution
hey guys, i suffered from that problem myself...and i think i found a solution :good:
go to settings menu>>>developer options>>> in the apps category make sure that the "don't keep activities" box is checked, and the background process limit to any number 1, 2, 3 , 4 but neither standard nor zero, and i recommend 3 or 4 processes
try it and feedback me plz,,
I had the same problem too
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It happens to me rarely. A reboot usually solves it out
But I will try the developer option thing
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Wakelock detector is an app to detect screen wake-ups, Check it out
turn ur phone on in safe mode and then check if it still turns on then
u might have a faulty button

Galaxy S3 keeps freezing

suddenly my samsung galaxy s3 keeps freezing and I have to make a hard reset every time. I tried to make factory reset, or wipe factory reset, but the same problem.
what should I do?
are you on SDS-safe firmware?
Dude, instead of creating yet another post with this, you could have searched to quite easily find out your phone is halfway dead and should be sent back to samsung for repair as soon as possible. Make it safe to return if you messed with it (flash original stuff, reset counter, etc, read a bit if you don't know what to do, it's all over these forums) and just take it in.
Don't take this the wrong way but you'd think it's common sense to just return any product (not even phone related) that it's malfunctioning instead of asking what to do to random people in a third party forum
karaks5 said:
suddenly my samsung galaxy s3 keeps freezing and I have to make a hard reset every time. I tried to make factory reset, or wipe factory reset, but the same problem.
what should I do?
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use the sds safe précautions to prevent freezing
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And what are the sds safe precautions or where can I find it?
just search in the general section
Device:GT-I9300 32gb
I have the same problem, this seems to be firmware related to me, the phone works in safe mode but this is really crappy now. I don't think there should be a return unless it's the only fix.Will try and flash JB and update the post.
Edit: Is that sds the Sudden death thing. I tried searching but no results come up. I am a new comer to Samsung as their devices sucked for ages and they still seem to do. Please can some one advise us(the op and myself and future people with this problem) on what is the main cause of this issue that a hard reset fixes it. But for my device,it doesn't die it stops functioning.
This is how I get this problem, my phone is rooted, but it runs fine only when there is a app crash the phone locks up and thats it.
what i tried: I tried to back up my data so i could save myself from reinstalling all my app. I hard reseted the phone and the phone functioned again
but after restoring my data the phone locks up again. Now my phone works about 5sec from normal boot but then locks up. It works fine in safe mode. So really where is issue? Is an app is making the whole OS to jam there has to be a simple fix for this.
Please don't say return the device, thats the dumbest thing to ever say. We want to over come the problem not ignore it/get rid of it.
Thanks for your time guys
Try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37432509&postcount=63
My S3 started well and then "SUDDEN DEAD" :crying:
Well. I reverted back to 4.1.1 and no more random reboots or freezes. It was definitely ROM issue.
Any one tried new EMA2 rom? If yes, still freezing?
msurg said:
Well. I reverted back to 4.1.1 and no more random reboots or freezes. It was definitely ROM issue.
Any one tried new EMA2 rom? If yes, still freezing?
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Mine was freezing constantly with MA1 and MA2 until I did what I posted above.
Now already 2 days without freezes.
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Same problems here. Not sure about rooting. If I change the csc code and download the latest, say German update. would that change the rom and fix it ?
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markhind said:
Same problems here. Not sure about rooting. If I change the csc code and download the latest, say German update. would that change the rom and fix it ?
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Probably not. Depends on what causes your problem.
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I was getting similar behaviour too. Phone would freeze after making calls, sending msgs, using facebook, searching on google, basically random points anywhere. Went through uninstalling apps, did a factory reset, and through some trial and error finally pinned down where my problem was at least. It was caused by the latest version of MixZing. Was crashing before frequently, and after uninstalling it I've been using my phone fine all day with no crashes at all. Still potentially early days, but if I don't report back then that solved it for me.
A simple solution
ok guys.. this is something i tried and has been working for me for more than two days now:
the problem seems to be in the download manager included in the new android software so what you simply have to do is to disable this application whenever you're not using it.. you can do so in the settings>> applications manager>> view ALL>> select DOWNLOAD MANAGER and DISABLE..
of course this will stop the play store from functionning and will stop any automatic updates but will prevent the phone sudden death...
All you have to do when you want to download any new apps or update existing ones is to enable the download manager and i suggest before doing that to clear the RAM memory and try to be gentle and patient with the phone...
Just keep working like that till ANDROID finds a solution in the next update and your phone will be fine.. in the end its better than killing the machine with every freeze.
Remember to be patient and work slowly when the download manager is enabled
Reply if it worked for you
simple solution worked for me
hady.j said:
ok guys.. this is something i tried and has been working for me for more than two days now:
the problem seems to be in the download manager included in the new android software so what you simply have to do is to disable this application whenever you're not using it.. you can do so in the settings>> applications manager>> view ALL>> select DOWNLOAD MANAGER and DISABLE..
of course this will stop the play store from functionning and will stop any automatic updates but will prevent the phone sudden death...
All you have to do when you want to download any new apps or update existing ones is to enable the download manager and i suggest before doing that to clear the RAM memory and try to be gentle and patient with the phone...
Just keep working like that till ANDROID finds a solution in the next update and your phone will be fine.. in the end its better than killing the machine with every freeze.
Remember to be patient and work slowly when the download manager is enabled
Reply if it worked for you
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My first post here. Thanks for this tip. My phone was freezing every 3 minutes and so I did what you suggested after all other suggestions (except rooting - as I was worried I might brick the phone if it froze while rooting) didn't work. Anyway, just a few seconds after I hit "DISABLE", my phone froze! So I thought it's probably not working, but since the reboot, it hasn't crashed. Thanks!:good:
karaks5 said:
suddenly my samsung galaxy s3 keeps freezing and I have to make a hard reset every time. I tried to make factory reset, or wipe factory reset, but the same problem.
what should I do?
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the same thing is happening to me and i have no clue why its happening it just like 3-4days ago but i have installed only clash of clans and clash royale in my phone. he most interesting thing is that all your phone feature will work but the screen will not for almost 20-30mins then it will recover on its own. all the call features are working well but no response from phone. my conclusion is this phone is totally a mess and i dont even know how i managed t use this device for 4years! it got super laggy after 6-7 months of use. Whatever i went to the service centre and they told that i need to change the motherboard of my s3 costing 130$.

[Q] Screen battery consumption

I have recently updated to Jelly Bean, and I must say it's really nice. It looks better than the previous version, runs faster, etc, but I have a few problems.
The screen on my phone uses so much battery now (or at least thet's what it says in the settings menu). After 12 hours of the phone being off the charger, the screen, which was on only for 1 hour, used 70% of all battery with the brightness set at around 25%.
Also, the default Videos application crashes everytime I try to start it, or when I try to add video widget to the home screen, but when I play the video from a gallery it works just fine. I tried reinstalling it with Root Uninstaller, but it didn't help. Does anyone know how to fix this or, if you have rooted your phone, and didn't experience these issues, could you please upload VideoPlayer.apk and VideoPlayer.odex from root/system/app, so I can try to use those?
I've updated my phone with ROM downloaded from androidpit.com, then applied a mini-update from Kies, and rooted my phone following ibtimes.co.uk's guide, if that is relevant. Sorry for not providing links, I'm not allowed to, but they are amongst the first google search results for - sgs2 4.1.2, in case you need them. This was not my first time rooting a phone, and I (kinda) know what I'm doing.
Re: [Q] Jelly Bean
Factory reset helps.
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gastonw said:
Factory reset helps.
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I'm sure it does, but I've just installed and set up everything, and really don't want to go through all of that again, so I would like to try something else before factory resetting. I mean, the problem is so small that it's not worth that hassle.
Re: [Q] Jelly Bean
veljaaa said:
I'm sure it does, but I've just installed and set up everything, and really don't want to go through all of that again, so I would like to try something else before factory resetting. I mean, the problem is so small that it's not worth that hassle.
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You can try to backup all your apps with titanium backup. Search it on playstore
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If you got game you can set it up in like 30 min.
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gastonw said:
If you got game you can set it up in like 30 min.
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Do you think factory reset will help with my screen or only Video Player app? If both, then I might try it, but just for Videos, no.
It's like shooting in the dark man...no guarantees there.
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Phone freezing and randomly rebooting

I know there has been a few threads about this but I kind of know the reason to my problem but I'd like it resolved.
It's caused by an application from the GO Launcher EX people, Go Battery & Power Widget.
So, I know this is APP specific but I'm figuring that it's also phone specific as I don't see anyone else having this problem in specific with it in the past few months or updates. Last was march.
It worked just fine up until yesterday when it started freezing the phone with the screen on and the plastic LED thing underneath the menu buttons on my Xperia U, if it doesn't freeze it randomly reboots whenever it feels like it and I'm quite positive this will in the long run harm my battery, I might just be paranoid but I think that it has affected or overloaded a few of the LEDs inside of the screen I can now find 3 dead pixels, I know that ain't much but it's kind of annoying as you may guess.
So, anyone know what I could do to solve this issue without removing the program or if it's a compatibility issue with something else, any help at all would be swell - I would remove it if it were not for the fact that when it did work that it saved my battery quite dramatically.
Thanks in advance and thanks for reading my wall of text.
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I just recently re-flashed my phone due to an annoying "update available" issue that wasn't removable, forcing me to create a backup, which I just now restored into the phone (It doesn't appear to be there now but the issue persist so now I'm confused as to what might be causing it)
Once again, I'd really like this resolved rather than factory reseting the phone and then start to re-fill it again.
Not quite counting the freezes and reboots, but it's well over 50 just today.
Hmm as u said that the problem existed even without go launcher so try logging when the screen freezes... We might see the problem there... Anyways I know you said you don't want to factory reset and stuff... But 50 above is harmful so I think flashing stock is a good idea
Cheers,
AJ
Have you tried removing the app itself to see that it stops freezes?
If so, then it is clear the app causes the problems. Then you should contact the developers of it, they shall have an email on google play.
If not, then I suggest you to go for a logcat and try to figure out what is the cause Sounds really weird and a stock reflash (without restore) seems to be the solution for me
Abhinav2 said:
Hmm as u said that the problem existed even without go launcher so try logging when the screen freezes... We might see the problem there... Anyways I know you said you don't want to factory reset and stuff... But 50 above is harmful so I think flashing stock is a good idea
Cheers,
AJ
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I decided to re-flash it, went well and it's feeling healthier.
The problem was Xprivacy.
nintendojet said:
Have you tried removing the app itself to see that it stops freezes?
If so, then it is clear the app causes the problems. Then you should contact the developers of it, they shall have an email on google play.
If not, then I suggest you to go for a logcat and try to figure out what is the cause Sounds really weird and a stock reflash (without restore) seems to be the solution for me
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I had some freezing issues even without it, but I mucked about and re-flashed and now it feels better, but I'm still sure it was Xprivacy. Don't know why though.

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